That year, the mine was converted to a museum, supported by $2.5 million in U.S. federal government funding.

[4] Visitors board a mine car and descend the #190 slope, about 250 ft (76 m) below ground, into the Clark Vein of coal.

[4] During the tour, the tour guides describe various aspects of the anthracite mining industry in Pennsylvania including the file of the fire boss, air doors and their role in ventilation, door boys or nippers, second means of exit from the mine, and the company store.

In 2018 and 2019, Lackawanna Coal Mine is featured in seasons 3 and 4 of the television adaptation of The Man in the High Castle, where is it is depicted as having an artificial portal to parallel worlds.

[8] In 2005, in season one of The Office, Michael Scott is seen attempting to organize a field trip for his office to the museum under the assumption that the elevator that takes visitors down into the mine is a ride analogous to a roller-coaster drop instead of the slow and prolonged descent into an industrial coal mining facility that it actually was.